The Emergency Medicine Residency program has a robust conference schedule with heavy
emphasis on core Emergency Medicine content. The conferences are designed to ensure
that you will possess a superior knowledge base, thus ensuring quality patient care
and successful passage of the ABEM Qualifying and Oral Certification Examinations.
Highlights include:
Grand Rounds: Occurs every Wednesday from 8:00 - Noon. Content is based on the Rosen's reading curriculum
and includes faculty and resident lectures, simulation, and interactive conferences.
Regularly occurring topics include Radiology, EKG, and Morbidity and Mortality conferences.
Morning Report: Occurs M-F in the ED from 7 AM- 7:15 AM. Format involves board review, including
oral cases, and case discussions focusing on actual patients seen in the ED overnight.
Journal Club: Occurs monthly either during Grand Rounds or at a faculty member's home. The focus
is on reviewing current Emergency Medicine literature that impacts the clinical practice
of Emergency Medicine.
Procedure Laboratories: Residents participate in cadaver labs and porcine labs on a regular basis. The labs
provide a unique opportunity to learn high acuity, low volume procedural skills including
transvenous cardiac pacing, thoracotomy, cricothyroidotomy, etc.
Ultrasound: Monthly ultrasound lecture followed by hands-on learning led by fellowship trained
ultrasound faculty.
Monthly Procedure Lab: Procedure lab by core faculty covering procedures such as lumbar punctures, intubation,
chest tubes, central line placement, and many more which include hands-on models and
learning.
Specialty Days: Dedicated conference days to Wilderness Medicine Day, with a "Mini-Med War", Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Day, Sonogames with the
winning team representing the residency program at the national Sonogames competition
at the annual conference hosted by the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Tactical
Medicine Day.
Additional Opportunities: There are additional opportunities to participate in furthering knowledge in Critical
Care, Emergency Medical Services(EMS), Ultrasound, International Medicine, and Pediatric
Emergency Medicine through fellowship conferences.
Sample Subjects From Past Weekly Conference Sessions
